Publications

Keywords: Social Psychology

01 Sep 1979
Conference Presentation

Insecurity Begets Negativity: A Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation

Keywords: Behavior; Emotions; Prejudice and Bias

10 Aug 2019
Conference Presentation

Reflections on the Nuances of Creative Leadership across Contexts

2018
Chapter

Creativity and the Labor of Love

BOOK ABSTRACT: This book provides an overview of the approaches of leading scholars to understanding the nature of creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance to society. The authors are the 24 psychological scientists who are... View Details

Keywords: Creativity

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2017
Working Paper

In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Behavior; Innovation and Invention

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1 May 1995
Conference Presentation

Remarks on the Development, Validation, and Application of a Model of Innovation

Keywords: Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention

1 Aug 2003
Conference Presentation

Positive Psychology in the Workplace: The Best (and Worst) Days at Work.

Keywords: Happiness; Employees

1 Apr 1992
Conference Presentation

Intrinsic Motivation and Artistic Creativity: The Effects of Naturally-Occurring Interest, Affect, and Involvement

By: M. A. Collins and Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Creativity

1 Apr 1989
Conference Presentation

Assessing the Environment for Creativity: The Work Environment Inventory

By: Teresa M. Amabile and N. Gryskiewicz

Keywords: Creativity; Working Conditions

May 2018
Article

The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work

By: Andrew Brodsky and Teresa M. Amabile

Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of employees being too busy, this paper presents evidence of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Performance Consistency; Performance Productivity

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March 2012
Article

Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer

Scholars began serious study into the social psychology of creativity about 25 years after the field of creativity research had taken root. Over the past 35 years, examination of social and environmental influences on creativity has become increasingly vigorous, with... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Performance

January 2003 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Satera Team at Imatron Systems, Inc. The, (B)

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Elizabeth Schatzel

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

August 2000
Case

Alison Brown of Compass Records

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Amy Blitz

Highly acclaimed recording artist, banjo player, and jazz/blue grass composer Alison Brown has used her artistic experience and MBA-based business savvy to found a successful independent record company with bassist/husband Garry West. Representing a stellar roster of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Structures; Service Delivery; Business Strategy; Expansion; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry

August 1999 (Revised May 2000)
Case

E Ink

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Susan Archambault

E Ink is a high-technology start-up attempting to revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays. The founders and top managers of this two-year-old firm are striving to translate a technological breakthrough into a working prototype, move from... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Organizational Structure; Commercialization; Technology; Information Technology Industry

March 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Ken Hakuta: AllHerb.com

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Nicole Tempest

Ken Hakuta had been an entrepreneur all his life. Having started a number of consumer-oriented ventures, he became well-known as "Dr. Fad," the initiator of the "Wacky Wallwalker" toy craze in the 1980s. Wishing to strike out in an exciting new direction in 1998, he... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Problems and Challenges; Web Sites

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March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney

Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States

2020
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Consensual Assessment

By: B. A. Hennessey, J. S. Mueller and T. M. Amabile

Over time, the field of creativity research has seen a gradual shift away from an almost exclusive emphasis on the creative person towards a more balanced inquiry that centers both on individual difference issues and questions about the nature of creative products and... View Details

Keywords: Consensual Assessment Technique; Product Creativity; Creativity; Research